THE TYRANIDS - WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?
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THE TYRANIDS - WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?
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hmm maybe they are afraid of what gave them a beating eons ago they just devour all bio matter to prepare for an enemy which is unthinkable to the human mind we and all other races are just a grain of rice on their plate we maybe of no mind to the hivemind we tiny hehe thankyou brother baldermort am thinking to hard now
As always a awesome video 🎉
Wonderful work 👏 💯
Thanks baldie. Neat story.
They suffer from infirior plot armor....allways being defeated by deus ex machina and fucking heros.
'Those chickens are up to something' - adeptus biologis
its all in your head inquisitor Tweedy. they dont plot, they dont scheme and they are not organised.
And after a forge world was lost
"I told you they was organized'
LOLOLOL I got a belly laugh at that. Thank you. I hope your life has been and will continue to be blessed.
The way to deal with traitor chickens is to throw a commissar at them.
This needs to be petitioned into the next codex
Id like to think every time Oroborus encounters an ork swarm, every single bio organism under its control lets out an annoyed sigh in unison.
Makes ya wonder what will happen to the orks if the tyranid are ever truly successful. Give them a true wah. May bring back the big uns
@bastiat isn't the idea that a big enough conflict and more orks working together could bring them back to their old glory, at least closer? The more thinkin things all make stuff work betta for fightin.
@bastiat hes right. read the book of gaz and he had the ablity to bring orks back from the dead. and the orks though the book grew nearly twice the hight of them at the start...
a full WAH bring orks from all over the universe drawn like a magnic for war... and the more orks the larger they get and the larger they get the "smarter" they are.. to me the orks are gonna save everything from the tyranids but what then
@@MRsolidcolor well…then moar wah
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Tyrannid board meeting: "Everything is going according to plan. Profits are up. Raises and promotions all around. Oh wait it's just me the overlord here..."
I absolutely adore Hive Fleet Jormungandr; their strategy of orbital strikes and subterranean assault, coupled with their yellow carapaces and the fact that they likely dig heavily protected labyrinthine subterranean burrows and spawning pools of biomass immediately made me think of a cross of the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors in a Tyranid form! 😎
I like them and their GS cultists. They work together and even some are kept around with the Hive Fleet proper… mostly as spare biomass for long road trips. Lol
Zerg
@@morbidone88 Absolutely. This is more similar to the zerg style of invasion, not really prioritizing on shock factor but by establishing a solid beachhead that's hard to dislodge then slowly but steady advance from there. Even if the defenders can stop the orbital landing, they'll be constantly harrased by the forces hiding in the tunnels waiting for opportunities in the future. Just like the zerg, even if they can't invade outright they can plant some vanguard forces that'll soften the defense for future invasions. Orks operate in a similar way, if enough spores are spread, orks incursions on the planets will be a chronic problem.
Well why don't ya marry em?!!
Thats exactly the reason i painted my Nids as Jormungandr
"Tyranids: What are they up to?" Sounds like a 40K Fox News segment 🤣
Even in the grim darkness of the far future,Fox News still exists and is still a massive joke
Streaming across our borders to infiltrate our nation and take our jobs! New expose on a planetary magistrate employing undocumented gene-stealers as housekeepers!
Love that the hive mind is no a simple collection of queens. But an actual consciousness that is beyond ancient. That has at most found the ferocious resitnce of humanity to be.....curious. The BoB story where the space marine lookes into the eye of the hive mind and realized the truly endless age and expanse of it to be mind shattering.
I love that part in the story
@@9Calavera6 was a welcome piece of depth to the hive mind
@bastiat4855 that's the absolute worst idea ive heard involving the nids ever.
Which book?
The descriptions of the Hive Mind during the Devastation of Baal gave me a new appreciation for the Tyranids. It was a genuinely terrifying description
I so hope the tyranids never turn out to be made by the necrons or old ones. It's always crap when people try and do that (looking at you flood) let the unknowable, incomprehensible swarm of alien insects remain just that
i think its more like a fail safe. not just 1 but many hive minds. if and when the old ones are KILLED. releases the Cleaner to erase its mistakes.
From what I've learned, the Nids are part of the origonal 3 races created by The Old Ones to create balance in the universe, along with the Necrons and the Ork. So... they are ancient and part of the First.
Ultimately... the Old Ones were around before the creation of everything. So, they are a staple and a sure fire will of the universe. Unlike the imperium.
@@rickyfinn2763 from what you learned? No, you just made that up
@NoConsequenc3 😂 honestly in time you'll learn! It's very interesting.
I love the interaction between Khronos and Chaos. Its a clash of SciFi and Fantasy that a setting like 40k allows.
A terrifying thought I haven't seen anyone consider about the Tyranids yet is that if they are from another galaxy then who's to say they don't control multiple galaxies, haven't stripped multiple galaxies. What's to say they aren't currently devouring hundreds, or even thousands of other galaxies all at the same time.
It's been considered. It's a theory I've heard many spout on different forums. If I'm not mistaken, the Hive Swarms have been designated names like Behemoth or Leviathon and are coming in at different angles to consume the Milky Way. They have in all likelyhood consumed other galaxies, combining the traits of billions of lifeforms to create the feral or formidable forms we see now.
I'd they come from "under" the galactic plane, they can pop up anywhere, at once even. This is going to be very unconventional warfare.
@@Shawn-st2lx The art showing the current invasion indicates that the current tendrils we're seeing are an extremely small fraction of the main tyranid force that's heading into the galaxy. The main swarm is larger than the galaxy itself.
It has been considered. I believe the silent king also spoke of meeting only nids and orkz in old lore. Makes you wonder how the orkz got there, though...
@@Dunkster74 Orks were engineered by the Old Ones, but they've devolved from their original form of the much larger/smarter/stronger krorks.
pretty sure there's old lore where there are old tyranid fossils on some jungle death worlds, indicating that they may be on something like an elliptical orbit around this galaxy.
My favourite theory about the Tyranids is that they are...
A C'tan from another galaxy :)
Supporting this:
1) C'tans are reality-bound, manifestations of material laws. Which means, there are most likely Ctans everywhere there are stars to eat, and they may very well be "regional" incarnations, meaning there is a Nightbringer, a Void Dragon, in every galaxy.
2) One of the C'tans in the Milky Way was called "The Endless Swarm" (citing the Necron Codex, 9th edition). No more info on him. But... yeah. Endless. Swarm. :DDD
3) C'tans in their primordial form (... gas-like "presence"?) can invade specific kinds of materials that are able to contain them. We only know of the Necrodermis, that is super-tailored and engineered for them, but they could very well be able to invade other type of materials that are adaptable and transformable. Like for example organic matter with mutable genetic material and nervous systems :p
4) Even after their incarnation, C'tans are mostly defined by: greed, gluttony, relentlessness, cruelty, unfathomable, madening, cosmic intelligence and knowledge. Sounds familiar? :)
Considering all that, the theory goes as follow:
- In another galaxy, another Endless Swarm C'tan came across a breed of super-adaptable creatures, and managed to "fuse" with them. Alternatively, a Necrontyr-equivalent race found the Ctans as well, and created an organic envelop for them, instead of a metallic one.
- Because of his nature, the Endless Swarm became the most powerful when using an organic vessel, and dominated the galaxy by creating the first "drafts" of Tyranids, becoming the Hive Mind. Though having no presence in the warp at first, the sheer number of "soulless" but still living, sentient creatures he was controlling had the effect of creating this Shadow in the Warp. In this theory, the Shadow is actually just the presence in the Warp of a Ctan that gained sentience through organic vessels, rather than inorganic ones.
- The Endless Swarm continued to replicate endlessly, devouring everything out of greed and gluttony. Eventually, his numbers became so vast that his own mind split into different individual Hive Minds, and they went on their own ways to keep devouring. Some left the galaxy to find other sources of food, the competition becoming too great, or the ressources too scarce.
- The different Hive Minds slowly approached the Milky Way. The Silent King was around, and encountered them. He recognized the behaviour of the Endless Swarm, that he vanquished during the War in Heavens, and realized a new incarnation of this C'tan was headed towards the Galaxy.
That's why he freaked out. He knows what the Tyranids are. He knows that the only thing that can and WILL completely annihilate everything and everyone, just for the sake of it, are C'tans. C'tans are the ultimate ennemies of everything, and the most evil, destructive forces in the universe that we know of. Szarekh did not really get involved with Chaos that much, he didnt see it as a real threat to his plans, but rather a temporary, self-destructive phenomenon. I don't see anything else that could make him want to ally with other races than the arrival of a new, fully capable, apocalyptic incarnation of a C'tan.
I rest my case! :D
We’ll said Sir
oh that is impressive Ctan are the only ones evil enough we know of to take an organic adaptable creature and twist it into the tyranids bravo sir bravo
@@matthewoneil6001 To be fair, i dont really have a problem with Tyranids being almost natural creatures, it's really the Hive Mind that's bugging me :) It's so ancient, powerful and malevolent that really it has only 2 equivalents: warp gods at their zenith, and Ctans at their zenith. With one Ctan being called the Endless Swarm... I mean... It's easy to make that jump 😄
Beautifully said. But scenario you outlined makes Tyranids.... the organic Necrons! Silent King is terrified, because he understands what his people are capable of and why - and now sees this greater by orders of magnitude.
@@clementcate4730 Emergent intelligence. Don't underestimate it. Also - this might be just immune response of cross-galatic, pan-universal organism ;)
I believe what the Tiamat hive fleet is building is a psychic beacon (like the astronomicon) for more tyranids surrounding the galaxy.
The reason why they haven't completed invaded the milky way is the lack of psyker tyranids in the main fleet.
Does that make sense though? It’s a hive mind, one collective intelligence spread across it’s trillions of trillions of bodies. The tyranids out in the depths between galaxies should know about the galaxy already as they’re part of the same one mind.
@@glyngreen538 Maybe their mind is stretched thin by the vast distance and the thoughts and impulses of the mind feel a bit erratic or incomplete. They are in need of some neural node like a body recovering from injury and reconnecting or rerouting neural network to get better.
I have a personal experience with an unlucky hit to my elbow that left two fingers (ring finger and the pinkie) on my right hand senseless at first and then somewhat numb for several years. I can imagine that the Milky way galaxy just itches a bit.
@@mortisCZ This isn't the impression of the Hive Mind we're given in Devastation of Baal. The Hive Mind appears full-strength and intact, or at least appeared that way just before the Great Rift was opened during the fall of Cadia.
Bio pylon.
I like the idea that Tiamat is making an anti chaos thing, like the necron pillars on Cadia.
I dunno man, I find the sobriquet, 'The Great Devouror' pretty terrifying. I assosciate it more with me being eaten alive than I do with the gluttony of something else.
I see them as biological Borg.
From their point of view they're doing you a favor. They are uplifting the species they come across to a higher form of being.
Once all has been consumed there will be peace. And within them will be all the knowledge and ability of every single individual ever consumed. The gestalt species.
If words are low bandwidth compared to thoughts, then thoughts are low bandwidth as compared to genetic exchange.
My hypothesis is they have an organelle that specializes in virus production. This organelle is programmable through their hive mind. These viruses act like CRISPER, allowing the insertion and subversion of cellular processes. A massive amount of data transfer with incredible compression.
The snippets of code aren't just tools, it represents the thought and will of something that was consumed. The more that is made of it the more it expresses. It's the gestalt that decides what DNA will express when, where, and how.
/Pontification
Yeah has a real grim dark Lovecraft feel to it. Sounds irreverent.
I’d be more worried Tiamat is building a gateway. Something to bring in hive fleets from distant galaxies, and transport them across this one. Or a way to draw in space dust and gasses to collect biomass on mass.
i think it's more of a beacon than a gateway
what if its something to mass convert the planet. make it into a true home for them where they can spawn fully, without the Biomass protocol so to speak. an anchor for the hivemind to truly create and bring the swarm into fold. or something like that
I think it's an amplifier, imagine the shadow in the warp being amplified and permanent over the entire Galaxy
@@avinashtyagi2 good idea. Still think it’s more something to throw open the floodgates like a gateway, nid superhighway, beacon (AKA dinner bell), etc, but that is definitely a possibility.
@@avinashtyagi2 i mean would be great but also lead to to much cannon destruction. maybe as a temp thing that pushes a sub story but given the position of the 40k universe something like that may put to much of a finite end times on the lore surely.
I like the idea that as the lore goes on the galaxy will just be more and more saturated with tyranids I can't wait for a monolog like....we where so petty squabbling amongst ourselves unable to see the danger that lurks out in the dark. We have fought for our survival for centuries now and yet they grow more numerous...always...hungry
PFC.Hudson:
"Is this going to be a Standup Fight
Sir, or another BugHunt ?"
Baldermort:
"To Quote..."
You got me into Warhammer lore much easier than any other podcast or RUclips narrator, your stories in the episodes make it very digestible, and lead me to have a game guessing the topic of the video from the story; while I am working I listen to these, have the ALL playlist going and just let it play. Thank you for keeping on with this, you are my favorite Lore channel. Emperor Protects.
Feels like I'm listening to someone who is actually from the 40k universe
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What are they up to?! The galaxy is a bloody buffet! They are on a massive buffet crawl and we are the main dish!!
Everyday is Veterans day and there's just so much free food to enjoy.
What a perfect voice for this, immersive and brilliant. If you are not already a voice actor, the world needs you.
I really want to know what Hive Fleets Tiamet are up to with their holdings and biomass amassing. If Tyranids can not only cultivate, but also produce resources, it must be important. Otherwise they’d just harvest what’s there and leave like the other Hive Fleets.
Boring answer would be a sort of "depot" for incoming hive fleets or a "base" for replenishment.
Exciting answer is they are making a really big car tyranid creature
@@loowick4074 I think that'd make sense from a survivalist POV. If the Hive Mind predicts biomass shortages / expenditure, then they may stockpile "resources". Lots of animals display this behaviour in various forms.
As for a big scary beasty? Well, unless they're rising to meet a threat - I'd assume the Hive Mind to consider it an unnecessary expenditure 🤷♂️
@@loowick4074 the rift makes it hard for other hive fleets to see the galaxy. It's a signal for the actual swarm to come. Cuzz everything else was a splinter
They may be terraforming world's with the resources they strip from the front line of combat. Imagine what a world terraformed by a intergalactic superintelligence would be like. I'd imagine it would be a solaris of some sort.
could just be a way to fight Demons or Nekrons should they need to in a pinch
the combination of voice and script is just perfect, absolutely love your style
The choice of name for Hive Fleet Ouroboris being so similar to Ouroboros, suggests a self-referential time loop. This stacks with their lore having them being probably responsible for historic sightings, and the suggestion that some tyranids might intentionally be scattering themselves using the immaterium.
I fully expect GW to birth a 'mother of monsters' chaos god or equivalent out of what Tiamet is doing, eventually.
In general tyranids do make one question why there are not more suicide bombers in 40k. As a guardsman I'd sure as hell consider wearing a claymore mine suit in case the buggers got close.
My theory: Tyranids are the Men of Iron. Upgraded and evolved so far that they have become biomachines indistinguishable from standard biological life.
And, it would seem, the Iron Warriors have discovered this tidbit of all important evidence... Or, at the very least, are on the verge of that breakthrough... 40:32
All hail our overlords! Blessed be the star children! Let them come and cleanse this world of its filth!
Start with Washington
I asked my Watch Captain why he's always walking around with a heavy flamer and he looked right at me and said, "Foul Xenos!" I laughed, he laughed, the genestealer cultists laughed, we purged them all in flame, it was a good day.
Did I see you in the North Georgia 40k Discord?
The last gift of the Old Ones is the End of all.
Yes, the tyranids are indeed a powerful force that can cleanse entire worlds. YOU however, are a squishy genestealer within purging range.
In the Infinite and the Divine, Orikan sees the future and mentions that the Tyranids and Orks might eventually have their time at the top of the galaxy, only to struggle with the same problems as the Necrons, Eldar, and humanity.
Imagine that. A Tyranid or Ork ruled galaxy, where their greatest foe isn't some other species... But themselves.
That sounds terrifying.
If the Tyranids win, the galaxy gets wiped.
@@jonharrison9222 Well, that's a question that Baldermort is raising. The Tyranids have been leaving behind devastation in their wake thus far, but that could be a strategy rather than a long-term goal. It's quite possible that they have the ability to reconstitute worlds as well, and if they succeeded in wiping out all competition from the galaxy, then it might become more efficient in the long term to invest in doing so. It's even possible that what we've seen thus far is just the extermination wave, and something very different will follow.
Leviathan lost at Baal, won the Octarius war, and is turning worlds into ready meals for Hive Fleet Kronus. They are either building a bio-beacon or a bio-pylon on a world they conquered but did not devour.
Amazing as always. And great Artwork, some of which i did not know yet.
I love everything about the tyranids hope one day a space marine film comes out with cavill as one and seeing in motion a world being swarmed and devoured by them what what a beautiful thing to behold ……praise the sky gods and the patriarch
In my opinion Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Jason Momoa, John Cena, and other large bodied actors could really fit into the space marines armor.
Denial is a strong coping mechanism. Especially given the existential threat the Tyranids present. Reducing them to “bugs” allows one to defer dealing with such an unfathomable and relentless force, preferring to grapple with what can be understood and managed. When “more important” threats are dealt with, then one can look into exterminating the “lesser” pests.
Boy they hungy, Tyranids be having the big snack
All of your videos are amazing! Gives me something exciting to listen to while painting 10/10
Man what an amazing video, I played as the nids back in the late 1900's to the early 2000's and this is the best I've seen.
Cheers for your efforts as I still love the lore.
Hello my floating Freind i just want to say when ever i see a new video of ur pop up i feel a huge burst of joy
Love to listen when working
I love listening about Tyrannids!
Thank you, a well-done video indeed.
Another Baldy hitter. I so much enjoy your conent man. I'm running through your content. I started with your 3hr video of the return of the great Lion.
Thank you so much for making a hype video for my favorite faction!
Glad I click the new to me stuff your content is pretty great.
Amazing lore information on the Great Devourer. Thanks Lord B!
Again right on the money:) I have long thought along similar lines. Thanks for another great movie
Its adorable how half the fan base don't even understand what they really are. You think Korks are scary? Try some brother moons manipulating entire swaths of the universe into war and pain only too feed on the energy.
Aaahh...Dead Space. How I miss thee
I swear it feels like I’m a new recruit to (insert your faction) and I’ve got some grizzly vet going over the history of Tyranids as we prepare for a hive fleet invasion. Your videos are so immersive it’s insane. Well done! Well done indeed!
Thank you for all the effort you put into the script. I clicked this Video because of the topic but I loved this video because of the telling.
This narration is very well done👌. Excellent video!
Wow. What an analysis, well done.
This is hands down my favorite channel
Really enjoyed this video!
I think your channel and a vox in the void are my favorite narrator voices for sure you two have it down to the letter
Hell yeah mlre Tyranids content, and in a long video. Great day!!
Great work!
Amazing as always Baldermort :)
It does bring up an interesting question. Perhaps the Necron didn't really see the Krork and Eldar as their main foes, they defeated their real enemy during the War in Heaven so to avoid further losses they went in to stasis, ready for their next real enemy? If the Silent King rallied his whole force in a war against the Tyranids, that would be incredible!
Lol IDK why but the title cracked me up I literally GQTMed (giggled quietly to myself)
"The Tyranids: What are they up to?"
Hahahaha
man this make me exited for space marine 2! I wonder what hive fleet we are fighting in the game is?
closest color match is Leviathan
Very informative! Great video!
Love the content Baldemort!
I have listened to a number of 40K lore videos, and you have the best voice for this. English, august, breadth of dialect, and a tone of voice not dis-similar to Churchill. :)
This is a fantastic and horrifying body of work Baldermort! Thank you for this insight! The Tyranids... each of the Tyranid fleets seem like one tentacled arm of a cosmic Kraken that we can not yet perceive in its entirety. The Silent King knows the true threat. Emperor protect us all! Thank you for sharing this work Baldemort! Much Luvz for all! ❤
That voice tho you were born for this my dude
I have a dillemma:
On the one hand, I have neither the patience nor attention-span to watch anything on RUclips under 1.5x speed but on the other hand, your voice and pronunciation is so silky smooth and enjoyable that I feel it is a waste to speed it up and miss the nuances and pace.
Oh cruel fate.
Lovely cheers Baldermort
Ahhhh another great tale to praise the four-armed emperor from our great Magus...I thank you for spreading the good word and await the call ;)
You've definitely got a knack for this man. I just discovered your channel and was interested in getting to tyranid lore a few days ago and bam! Like you read my mind.
Thank you , BM .
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Awesome as alwayz!!🔥🤘🏻🔥
My theory of Hive Fleet Tiamat is that they are tasked with creating one of three things: a bioform large and powerful enough to contain the bulk of the Hive Mind, a powerful synaptic repeater to strengthen and speed up the Hive Mind's signals into our galaxy, or a galaxy-spanning emmiter for the Shadow in the Warp.
The Tyranids: Would you like to know more?
Why yes Baldermort, yes I would
A great vid to watch while putting together some termagants 🦂
True indeed. Tyranids are horrifying! I've never won a game against them (not played many, but still) I don't think.. Another splendid video!
BY THE GODS !!! I always relish and eagerly await new nid lore ...... As always the Great Teller harbinger of boredom's doom , for not but the price of the Listener's ear ....... A true gift in this place
I always hated how people called the Tyranid "bugs". Years ago when my brothers and I still bought the books and magazines I distinctly remember an article in a White Dwarf written by one of the sculptures, must have been somewhere in between 3rd and 4th edition, mentioning that he was going for more of a reptilian design as opposed to insect. The inspiration for that decision coming from the name Tyranid coming from the Tyrannosaurus. We long ago threw away that magazine but the article remained in my mind.
Then again I may just be insane. Either one works for us.
Most Tyranid models look much closer to dinosaurs than bugs with bulk and limbs.
@@Tracker947 Whaa? They have a carapace and multiple limbs, usually 6 like a insect. They don't have scaly skin. They look nothing at all like dinosaurs, what a strange assertion.
@@BigMikeMcBastard Look at their heads and their musculature. I'm not saying they don't look like bugs, I'm saying they also share a strong resemblance to dinosaurs. But more than either, they look much closer to Xenomorphs.
@@Tracker947 necromorphs
"'Old uhp! If weez can grow da boyz fasta than they can eat em... The Waaaagh Never has to end!"
I love your voice! The Great Devourer is pleased!
Your voice is amazing!!!
Great lore and account of the Tyranids. Only the Necrons have shown their power to shut the Tyranids down winning 95% of the time and the Tyranids trying to avoid them when they adapt and fight everything else even Chaos.
Edit: what's even more terrifying is if the Tyranids make a vessel for the Hive Mind on Tiamet. Or some other teleporter for entire Hive armies.
Where did you get the 95%??
@@captnwinkle go read the campaigns against them. Even the victories like against the World Engine are not real victories as they destroyed hundreds of large ships and an entire chapter was lost to stop one vessel. Same with almost all of their campaigns even when they don't completely win they destroyed the enemy so bad that they couldn't continue fighting a further campaign.
I'm pretty sure that when I played from 2nd edition to 4th edition (though Necrons came out 3rd edition), I was the only Nid player at my GW that could defeat Necrons a good portion of the time. However, they were never easy fights.
I saw so many fell Nid players just basically give up before it started and I basically assumed that meant the Necron players would get cocky. So went full in on my opponents getting overconfident.
@@jonathanryan9946 ya that was the Matt Ward Necron redo with GW's blessing. It's why I judge the power of a side on the lore and not Tabletop which changes these days month to month from FAQ updates. The Tyranids are supposed to be the big bad in 10th edition since Chaos and Necrons where the big threats and power in 8th and 9th edition alongside the Imperium being good for most of it.
@@eichler721 Makes sense, just got to the end of the video and saw the Silent King part... and was like, wow, that's a change I missed. I'm used to the Necrons just ignoring the Nids and vice versa. Back when I played it was always a debate how they'd interact.
Then after a quick research check saw it was a 5th edition change. Was like, missed that lore update by 1 edition. Lol.
But basically, I was fairly well versed in lore up to 4th edition, but after that lost touch. Though have heard the bits and pieces here and there. But hey, lore updates and changes. I still remember Salamanders going from an aquatic army to a lava world just as a big example.
Yes, finally lore time again with my favourite story teller.
Love the War of the Worlds reference, as always brother Baldermort, superb absolutely brilliant BBB,BBB indeed !
I love this title. Its so casual, like we are asking somebody what the Tyranids do for their job.
There was an obscure remembrancer back in the Age of Terra who kind of summed up the Tyranid threat when he wrote, "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." What his name was though we'll never know.
Baldemort creates a 50m video on the nids' plans while they are just out there eating whatever they can find.
I really feel they they should try diatomaceous earth against the tyranids
TTS emp suggested a giant can of bug spray.
Fun achieved, as always!
From the names you mentioned, i find "The great Devourer" most apt, since it acknowledges something the others dont, and something most species in the milky way dont realize: The tyranids are not really a species, they are one entity. The swarms and fleets are its body, the hivemind its, well, mind. And so, to look upon individual battles, even campaigns, looking for displays of the hiveminds full potential is doing it a disservice, and demonstrating ignorance. Think of what your body can do without your conscious intervention. The heart beats, you breathe, your guts digest and your immune system develops new weapons to fight infection, all without your conscious thought or even awareness. Now, when you feel hungry and you plan to get some food, what do you put the most thought into? Chewing it? Digesting it? No. The only thing that really requires your attention is getting your hands on it in the first place. Does the hivemind percieve what it does as a hunt? Is it akin to a hunter stalking prey, at some risk to himself, or is the tyranids invasion of the galaxy, its overwhelming of planetary defenses and consumption of civilizations, akin to one of us walking up to a blackberry bush and popping a few of the fruits into our mouth? Is the destruction of individual hivefleets really a massive setback, or is it like pricking your finger on a thorn, painful, maybe worthy of a momentary flash of rage or frustration, but forgotten about within moments and ultimately irrelevant? Is the universe a dark forest stalked through by a hunter, or an orchard being harvested, with the one harvesting moving from one galaxy to another, waiting for the ones it has harvested already to grow back their fruit?
I prefer this illustration of the Tyranids best. Each organism is just one small cell within the entire singular organism that is the species itself.
@@GhostBearCommander Such entities exist in our world, too. When you look at honeybees, each individual is not capable of performing all functions that an animal would have to. The workers are sterile, the queens and drones cannot fend for themselves. They only make sense as animals when viewed as a whole, they are a metaorganism. I have always found that stuff fascinating. Its why i collect tyranids, and its why i kept bees for a couple years before i left home for university lol.
Narration is absolutely top tier 👌. Like fine wine or two year old single malt scotch. My shares increased 5 thousands bases points just listening.
It's funny, I was watching a midwinter minis episode about tyranids from 1995 that he had literally just bought off of eBay and was painting and they were older models and one of them hasn't even had a model update since 1995! (The other one just happened to be that moving tank looking thing you know the bug with the gun on the back apparently it looked a lot more creepy and it's unevolved state!)He was gifting them to one of his friends who has a tear in an army. Anyway I was looking at these things going my God just look at how much they've changed in the lower like the art from the 90s up until now I mean they seriously used to look like the dinosaur bugs of death and yes they've changed some for the better some for the not so much but I have been wondering what they've been up to so thank you Uncle for coming through with that I was wondering what the buggies of death we're doing! Carry on good sir!
"The tyranids are the true threat?! Awww...." *kicks rock* -Abbadon the Despoiler.
you and leutin are the best wh40k channels -- i could consume this type of content for the rest of my life, in fact, i intend to.
Thanks for the video Balders!
Uncle always has the best bedtime stories ever.....😱
Best 40k content I've seen.
I could listen to this voice all day.
As a tyranid player, I've tried to point this out on multiple occasions to fellow gamers..
The reaction is always "they're just hungry bugs", which is unpleasant to hear.
BUT! It does help in the ultimate goal, to unite all the races as one.. In a very large stomach.
The nids might be diversifying their attack fleets. Each faction regardless of allegiance has their own combat doctrine and the nids early one were just a massive wave of claws and teeth. If they are refining each hive fleet to have a specific doctrine. We could see nids that specialize in air combat, space combat, close quarters, or from a distance.
Yes Baldermort upload!
Just found this video and your channel. My god I'm hooked!
Your voice is perfect for this type.
Keep up the amazing work.
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Yooooooooooo Balder!!!!!!
Even though the video is your latest and its only been a few hours, I actually felt deja vu at around 29:00. I DREAMT about your video a few weeks back!! 😆😆😆
Edit: just to confirm, I even checked my dream diary. Exactly 17 days ago did I dream about it. I remember jotting down the description of the tyranid at the timestamp i posted above me, but got confused when I heard the word 'Ork' instead. 😅
Your videos are awesome, Baldermort! If there’s any books on Audible that you narrate, please let me know.
YAY NEW VIDEO
Amazing!!!